Cat in a hat

Here is my favorite investigator J. I have talked about her in my letters before... anyways, she bought this hat for her cat to make it look like it's wearing a rastafari beanie and has little braids coming
out of it and she just thought it was the FUNNIEST thing!!!!!
haahhahah I LOVE Joy! I have a story about her so stay tuned it's coming soon! 

It was like manna from Heaven

Sister King and I were supposed to get paid on Monday last week for groceries because it was only like the 30th of the month, but we didn't. And I decided to spend my green card (personal debit card) on stupid stuff at Walgreens that morning. :( So, we got to Korger and bought a few things like laundry detergent and food from the deli to eat for lunch that day. I felt really bad for wasting my money previously that morning, because I could have used it to help us buy a few more necessities. So Sister King suggested we just use one of our lunch breaks during the week to head over to Korger and do our grocery shopping. (We were going to get paid on Wednesday), but I felt like it was my fault that we didn't have any food, because I spent my emergency money from home on personal things, rather than saving it for an actual emergency like this, so I decide that we should just embrace the results of our actions and go the week without any food.

We literally had nothing. No milk, eggs, bread, pasta, meat or any fruits! Sister King had bought like 3 cucumbers, that's pretty much all we had!

Besides, were are not really supposed to do any shopping during the week, so I told Sister K that we most certainly were NOT going to go shopping for food that week. We would just have to hand this one to the Lord. Because good things happen when you are obedient, but MIRACLES happen when you are strictly obedient. And, Centerville really needed a miracle.

This is probably the hardest area in the ENTIRE mission. It needs all the miracles it can get! So, we stepped into the week on nothing but faith in God to keep us alive. And, miracles happened!

So Wednesday, the elders invited all the sisters in the zone to Cousin Vinny's after district meeting. So that was one day taken car of. Then that night, the members who had signed up to feed us, cancelled. But, the mom still dropped food by our apartment. When she showed up, it was like manna from heaven! She had a whole bag of fruits and just a bunch of groceries she had picked up from Korger like chips, salsa, salad, a whole jug of minute Maid and frozen taquitos to heat up!

Seriously! That's when I knew Heavenly Father was watching out for Centerville. The thing is, the fact that she cancelled was a miracle, because then she wouldn't have gone and bought a ton of food for us. Like I doubt she even knew our circumstance, we didn't tell anyone that we didn't have food that week. Only Heavenly Father knew. That's the best thing that happened this week.

God makes weak things strong

Sister King and I decided we needed to kick things up a notch, so we started a fast to help us find investigators. First thing on the first morning of our fast we knocked on a door. 

This lady was a referral from her next door neighbor who had been a previous investigator, but had become uninterested. So, anyways, the lady answers the door, we tell her who we are and that we have come to offer a message about Jesus Christ. She is offended at first, as most everyone here is, because everyone in Centerville is so devout and pious in their own religions. Right as she is shutting the door, we give her a card with our number on it, just in case she is ever in need of service. 

She sees the picture of the temple on the back and gets really excited because she had been to Temple Square before. So she gets to talkin' to us for a minute, then she offers us some water. Of course we decline. But then, she offers us some cupcakes, and I swear the moment that word entered my ears, like my entire brain just went blank and I completely forgot about everything else in that moment, like perhaps even the fact that we were fasting that morning!!! Like, I swear it was complete impulse, so I just said, "..yes, of course!" and accepted the cupcake offer. When the lady turned to go get the cupcakes, Sis. K looked at me all frenzied like '..dude, sister, WE'RE FASTING, remember?!' 

OMGoodness. Most embarrassing thing ever! Just the word 'cupcake' and my mind goes completely blank, and I forgot that we were fasting! 

So we followed her into the house and asked her if we could just wrap them up to go. We kept talking to her a little more, and the whole time I was praying that she wouldn't notice we weren't eating the cupcakes for fear that she was poisoning us! She wasn't. We wrapped them up and drove straight home and stuck them in the freezer!

WOW! When they say that Satan knows your weaknesses, THEY WEREN'T KIDDING! Cupcakes are a weakness of mine, but if Satan thought that he was going to try and get us to break our fast early that day, he surely had another thing coming!

Not bad results: Satan didn't stop us fasting, and we end up with cupcakes in the freezer!